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DANIELLE Larocca has been appointed senior vicepresident: human capital management at EPI-USE Labs, a developer of software solutions that help organisations to optimise their SAP systems.
Larocca was previously the executive vice-president and operations/chief knowledge officer at a technology start-up.
She has more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multinational business, business process re-engineering and project and people management.
ACCOUNTING firm and consultancy Grant Thornton International has appointed Paul Badrick CEO.
He has been acting CEO of Grant Thornton Johannesburg since February this year.
Before this, he was chairman of Grant Thornton Johannesburg’s group governance board, which oversees governance, partner rights and affairs within the firm.
Badrick is a chartered accountant and has worked in assurance and accounting for more than 30 years.
He joined PKF Johannesburg as a partner in 2006, and in 2013 that firm merged with Grant Thornton.
ROGAN Davies is the new group CEO of insurance company O’Keeffe & Swartz, an outbound call centre that sells up to 60 000 insurance policies a month on behalf of clients.
Davies joins the company from Absa/Barclays, where he held positions as head of the retail sales and service call centre, as well as head of collections operations strategy, change and optimisation.
He has extensive experience in the South African financial services sector and has held numerous senior banking executive positions, including in sales operations and callcentre strategy and management.
LAW firm Bowman Gilfillan Africa Group has appointed Jane Andropoulos as partner in its Africa-wide commercial litigation practice.
Andropoulos, who joins from Hogan Lovells, specialises in commercial litigation and has experience in both motion and trial work, including business rescue, company law, contractual and property disputes, and administrative law challenges in respect of regulatory bodies. She was admitted as an attorney in 1992 and went to the bar in 1995. In 2006, she returned to the side bar as a result of an offer that led to her becoming a partner at ENS Africa.